About CREd Library

The Clinical Research Education Library connects emerging and established scientists with resources on topics critical to the conduct and advancement of clinical research in communication and related disorders.

Advancing Knowledge and Accelerating Research

Within the communication sciences and disorders (CSD) discipline, the goal of clinical research is to produce knowledge essential to preventing, identifying, assessing, and treating disorders of speech, voice, language, hearing, swallowing, and balance.

In recent years, the need for such research has grown exponentially, concomitant with

a growing demand for studies that support evidence-based approaches to practice,

a growing scope of practice in the discipline,

the broadening of traditional research areas to include such domains as implementation science and participation (i.e., involvement in life roles and situations).

The CREd Library was conceived as a response—and solution—to the challenges of the current clinical research environment. Its goals are to

advance knowledge of clinical research methods and practices,

accelerate the generation of high-quality applied research in CSD,

facilitate an exchange of knowledge through the ongoing curation of articles, tools, presentations, and multimedia content.

Focus on Clinical Practice Research

To address a critical need in the research base, the CREd Library gives special attention to resources that focus on clinical practice research, a subset of the larger domain of clinical research.

Unlike studies on the underlying nature of disorders or mechanisms of disease, clinical practice research focuses more directly on service delivery and treatment outcomes, investigating methods and approaches for

Key Issues and Expert Perspectives

The CREd Library collection will cover topics essential to the design, implementation, and management of high-quality clinical practice research, including group and single-subject study designs, bias and validity, analysis and interpretation, ethical considerations, collaboration, publishing, grantsmanship, and much more.

In addition to a wealth of instructional articles and presentations, the collection will include tools, practical examples, and interviews that reflect expert perspectives and capture challenges, solutions, and lessons learned.

Ongoing Development

Development of the CREd Library is supported in part through a grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (DC012078).

The CREd Library launched in December 2014, and development of the collections is ongoing.

Get Started With CREd

Clinical Research Education (CREd) Library

The CREd Library hosts a dynamic collection of resources on topics critical to the conduct and advancement of high-quality clinical practice research in the communication sciences and disorders (CSD) domain.

Continue the Conversation

In addition to sharing articles and web resources, we hope to capture pearls of wisdom, helpful tools and lessons learned by scientists in the field. If you have advice or links to share, help us continue the #CREdLibrary conversation.

The Clinical Research Education Library is supported in part by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health under award number U24-DC012078. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.